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astro-ph.CO2017★ 160 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

Julian E. Bautista, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Kyle S. Dawson +16

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail o…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 9 cited

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS): testing a new approach to measure the evolution of the structure growth

Rossana Ruggeri, Will J. Percival, Eva-Maria Mueller +4

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is one of the first of a new generation of galaxy redshift surveys that will cover a large range in redshift with suffi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 26 cited

Nonlinear reconstruction of redshift space distortions

Hong-Ming Zhu, Yu Yu, Ue-Li Pen

We apply nonlinear reconstruction to the dark matter density field in redshift space and solve for the nonlinear mapping from the initial Lagrangian position to the final redshift…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 113 cited

KiDS-450: Cosmological Constraints from Weak Lensing Peak Statistics-I: Inference from Analytical Prediction of High Signal-to-Noise Ratio Convergence Peaks

HuanYuan Shan, Xiangkun Liu, Hendrik Hildebrandt +19

This paper is the first of a series of papers constraining cosmological parameters with weak lensing peak statistics using of imaging data from the Kilo Degree…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 177 cited

Lack of clustering in low-redshift 21-cm intensity maps cross-correlated with 2dF galaxy densities

C. J. Anderson, N. J. Luciw, Y. -C. Li +13

We report results from 21-cm intensity maps acquired from the Parkes radio telescope and cross-correlated with galaxy maps from the 2dF galaxy survey. The data span the redshift ra…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 124 cited

Probing Primordial Gravitational Waves: Ali CMB Polarization Telescope

Hong Li, Si-Yu Li, Yang Liu +14

In this paper, we will give a general introduction to the project of Ali CMB Polarization Telescope (AliCPT), which is a Sino-US joint project led by the Institute of High Energy P…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 3 cited

Reconstructing the Cosmic Expansion History with a Monotonicity Prior

Youhua Xu, Hu Zhan, Yeuk-Kwan Edna Cheung

The cosmic expansion history, mapped by the Hubble parameter as a function of redshift, offers the most direct probe of the dark energy equation of state. One way to determine the…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 58 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from anisotropic galaxy clustering

Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang +4

We perform a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from the anisotropic galaxy clustering of the combined sample of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (B…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 115 cited

Ultra-compact structure in intermediate-luminosity radio quasars: building a sample of standard cosmological rulers and improving the dark energy constraints up to

Shuo Cao, Xiaogang Zheng, Marek Biesiada +3

In this paper, we present a new compiled milliarcsecond compact radio data set of 120 intermediate-luminosity quasars in the redshift range . These quasars show negl…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 119 cited

Strongly lensed repeating Fast Radio Bursts as precision probes of the universe

Zhengxiang Li, He Gao, Xu-Heng Ding +2

Fast Radio bursts (FRBs), bright transients with millisecond durations at GHz and typical redshifts probably , are likely to be gravitationally lensed by intervening g…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 68 cited

Cosmology with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: an Overview

Hu Zhan, J. Anthony Tyson

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operat…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 95 cited

2MTF VI. Measuring the velocity power spectrum

Cullan Howlett, Lister Staveley-Smith, Pascal J. Elahi +7

We present measurements of the velocity power spectrum and constraints on the growth rate of structure , at redshift zero, using the peculiar motions of 2,062 galaxies in t…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 47 cited

A measurement of the Hubble constant using galaxy redshift surveys

Yuting Wang, Lixin Xu, Gong-Bo Zhao

We perform a measurement of the Hubble constant, , using the latest baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements from galaxy surveys of 6dFGS, SDSS DR7 Main Galaxy Sample…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 32 cited

New probe of departures from general relativity using Minkowski functionals

Wenjuan Fang, Baojiu Li, Gong-Bo Zhao

The morphological properties of large scale structure of the Universe can be fully described by four Minkowski functionals (MFs), which provide important complementary information…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 121 cited

Clustering of quasars in SDSS-IV eBOSS : study of potential systematics and bias determination

Pierre Laurent, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Jean-Marc Le Goff +21

We study the first year of the eBOSS quasar sample in the redshift range which includes 68,772 homogeneously selected quasars. We show that the main source of systemati…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 413 cited

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Metin Ata, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista +60

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 1 cited

Big-bang nucleosynthesis constraints on dark-matter sectors revisited

C. A. Bertulani, V. Challa, J. J. He +2

We extend previous studies of big bang nucleosynthesis, with the assumption that ordinary matter and dark matter sectors are entangled through the number of degrees of freedom ente…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 21 cited

Probing dynamics of dark energy with latest observations

Yuecheng Zhang, Hanyu Zhang, Dandan Wang +3

We examine the validity of the CDM model, and probe for the dynamics of dark energy using latest astronomical observations. Using the diagnosis, we find that different k…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 89 cited

The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: final Emission Line Galaxy Target Selection

A. Raichoor, J. Comparat, T. Delubac +22

We describe the algorithm used to select the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample at for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Su…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 69 cited

Using Voids to Unscreen Modified Gravity

B. Falck, Kazuya Koyama, Gong-bo Zhao +1

The Vainshtein mechanism, present in many models of gravity, is very effective at screening dark matter halos such that the fifth force is negligible and general relativity is reco…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 10 cited

Testing backreaction effects with observational Hubble parameter data

Shu-Lei Cao, Huan-Yu Teng, Hao-Ran Yu +2

In order to explore the generic properties of a backreaction model for explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe, we exploit two metrics to describe the late time Univer…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 26 cited

Revealing modified gravity signal in matter and halo hierarchical clustering

Wojciech A. Hellwing, Kazuya Koyama, Benjamin Bose +1

We use a set of N-body simulations employing a modified gravity (MG) model with Vainshtein screening to study matter and halo hierarchical clustering. As test-case scenarios we con…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 36 cited

Isobaric Reconstruction of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation

Xin Wang, Hao-Ran Yu, Hong-Ming Zhu +3

In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction algorithm to the non-linear matt…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 32 cited

Halo nonlinear reconstruction

Yu Yu, Hong-Ming Zhu, Ue-Li Pen

We apply the nonlinear reconstruction method to simulated halo fields. For halo number density at , corresponding to the SDSS ma…